Biblical Prophets - Bible Study Online
Even though God had relieved Israel from their affliction behind the dark famine siege that was brought on by Ben-Hadad the Arameanian king. We find that Israel still had not given up their idol gods. They were still serving Baal and perhaps some were still practicing the Calf Religion as well. Because of this, we find that God had issued a judgment for a seven year famine to take hold of the land. Now there are times where the righteous will suffer because of the unrighteous, but we are treated with a situation were the righteous was spared and shown great favor in spite of the unrighteous. Remember the well-to-do Shunammite woman who showed tremendous kindness towards Elisha every time he would pass by her house? She would always invite him over to have a meal at her house. This would eventually become a common practice between the Shunammite woman and the prophet. She would then ask her husband if they could build Elisha a small room on the top of their house. This way the prophet would not only be treated with a hot meal, but he could have a place to rest as well. Her husband would agree with his wife and they built Elisha a room on top of their roof. This well-to-do Shunammite family had shown tremendous kindness towards Elisha, they were blessed with their first and only child. So time had passed and their child had grown older but ended up passing away. The Shunammite woman would again be blessed by Elisha, for he raised her son up from the death that had fallen upon him. Now we find that the land in which the Shunammite lived had been sentence to a seven year famine. Once again we find that the Shunammite woman would be blessed again by Elisha. For he warns her about the seven year famine that was about to engulf the land, and he instructed her to leave. So she and her family ended up staying in the land of the Philistines for seven years. After the famine had ended, we find that the Shunammite woman and her family had return from the load of the Philistines. Upon her return we find that the land and all that she had accumulated was no longer hers. The reason behind this we are not told, but we do know that she had went to the Israel king to ask that he'll return her land and all that she had back to her. When she arrived at the king's court, we find that Gehazi the servant to Elisha who was cursed with leprosy, behind the greed and deceit that he had shown after the prophet had healed Naaman the Syrian commander of his leprosy. We are now told that Gehazi now hold's the position of telling the Israel king about the miracles that he had witness while serving under Elisha. While Gehazi was telling the king about how Elisha had raised the Shunammite's son from the dead, we find that the same Shunammite woman had just entered the royal court to speak with the king about her land. "This is the woman, my lord the king, and this is her son that Elisha had restored to life," Gehazi would tell the king. The Israel king then asked the woman to verify Gehazi's story and to state her business. After she had done what the king had asked, he assigned one of his official's to her case, "Give her back everything that belonged to her, including all the income that her had land had produced all the way up to now," the king would order the official. So the official had did what the king had ordered and the Shunammite's land and all that she owned before she left was restored back to her and her family. So she continued to reap the great harvest that she had sown while she was the helping the man of God. Start at the Beginning: Elijah the Fire Prophet 13) Elijah and the Chariot of Fire 15) Elisha - She Bears Attacking 17) The Blood Water 19) Shunammite's Son Raised From The Dead 20) Elisha and the Pot of Death 24) The Siege of the Dark Famine 26) <-CURRENT PAGE-> 27) Hazael Anointed Syrian King 29) Jehu Is Anointed King of Israel 30) The Demise of Jehoram & Ahaziah 
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